Lcttens

Dear Mr. Cutler,

Please accept my warm thanks for the efforts put forth by you in supplying me with requested back issues of California Lumber Merchant

After extended absences on consulting assignments in the Orient it has been a great pleasure to renew reading the "Merchant".I find it ,as good as ever -in fact improved!

Congratulations and renewed thanks!

Cordially,

Leo C. Monahan Marketing Consultant

San Francisco, Calif.

The lollowing letter hns been sent to 125 Hoo'Hoo clubs in the U.S. anil Canada. We re' prod,uce it here in hoPes thnt we can help spread, the woril and encourage aII to attend'-Ed.

Dea,r Brother Hoo-IIoo:

Outstanding among floo-Hoo activities this Year is the 74th annual conventrion. It will be held in Phoenix, Arizona, SePtember 19-22, 1965.

As the host organization, the Salt River Valley Hoo-Hoo C,lub No. ?2 is well underwaY in arranging a get-together to satisfy all interests and tastes, and to make this a most memorable occasion. Aside from the important business meetings and the election of a new slate of executives for our order, we have planned a recreation and entertainment program tYPical of the friendly and hosPitable traditions of the W'est.

Not only do we want you with us as a representative of your club, but we hope you will be accompanied by as many of your colleagues and their ladies as possible. At least, we are sug:- gesting to Iloo-Hoos everywhere: "Forget your sinuses! Send your president to Arizonal"

Reg:ister as soon as possible so you'll'be eligible for o,ur special post-convention prize. Some lucky out-of-town IIoo-IIoo and his lady will win two nights and three days at the R.iviera in Las Vegas. September 1 is the deadline.'We're all looking forward to being able to extend real Arizona-style hospitality to you and your fellow lfoo-Iloos.

Cordially,

Jay O'Malley

1965 Convention Chairman

Salt River Valley

Hoo-IIoo

,Club Number 72

Phoenix, Arizona

Max Cook

California Lumber Merchant

Dear Max:

I still squeeze in your magazine along with the mountains of reading I have here at the University of CaliforniaAlong with our high line marketing and accounting theory at the Business School and in the beatnik environment, the touch with the real world is a welcome balance.

Best regards, Frederick Riedle, Jr. Berkeley, Calif.

Gentlemen:

Thank you very much indeed for the October 1964 copy of your California Lumber Merchant, which I duly received.

After carefully having studied this. issue, I should ask you again to let me have another copy so that I can finally make up my mind whether to order or not your periodical.

I should very much appreciate getting your soon reply and in the meantime, f remain, dear Sirs, Very faithfully yours, Robert G. Biechoff Hamburg, Germany

Sure, pal, we w,ouhd,n't want you to rush into anything this important.-Ed,inr.

Dear Ole May:

"Psalm of the Open Palm" wag in a business letter from Tacoma Box & Lumber Corp. of Tacoma, Washington. Thought you might want it for California Lumber Merchant. Very truly yours, Henry O. W'estcott, Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Los Angeles, California.

Psalm Of The Open Palm

Ttre Government is my shepherd, I need not work. It alloweth me to lie down on good jobs. It leadeth me beside still factories.

It destroyeth my initiative: yea, tho I walk through the valley of laziness and deficit spending, I will fear no evil, for Government is with me.

Its doles and its vote-getters, they comfort me. It prepareth an Utopia for me by appropriating the earnings of many gtandchildren.

It filleth my head with baloney; my inefficiency runneth over. Surely Government shall care for me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in a fool's paradise forever.